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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Update to dev-libs/icu-51.1 results in borked Dolphin
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 21:45:02
Message-Id: 201304282244.39527.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Update to dev-libs/icu-51.1 results in borked Dolphin by Alan McKinnon
1 On Sunday 28 Apr 2013 22:29:27 Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On 28/04/2013 23:25, Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 > > On 28/04/2013 22:23, Mick wrote:
4 > >> On Sunday 28 Apr 2013 17:44:25 Alan McKinnon wrote:
5 > >>
6 > >>
7 > >> Then tried to run update world again to update icu to the latest stable
8 > >> version 51.1. It fails straight away:
9 > >>
10 > >> What does this error about autotools mean?
11 > >
12 > > flameeyes, who knows more about this stuff than both of us together, has
13 > > this to say in the thread about tar:
14 > >
15 > >
16 > > "yeah, thanks to some automake update someone did not think about testing
17 > > first before unmasking, a whole bunch of packages are suddenly failing
18 > > with that error. Nothing to see, but versionitis once again hitting a
19 > > couple of innocents. Just go to bugzilla and see the bugs for the last
20 > > 24h. It is a massacre."
21 > >
22 > >
23 > > At some point in your near future and re-sync and remerge will fix all
24 > > your problems. Meanwhile, sit tight and I recommend you do not updates
25 > > until emerge worls tells you there's something for auto*
26 >
27 > Ignore this, it's a change to autotools.eclass so you won't see it in
28 > emerge's list of updates to perform
29 >
30 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467772
31
32 Thanks for letting me know. I'll rinse and repeat at a later point.
33 --
34 Regards,
35 Mick

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